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Payback
Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said Zimbabwe will use US$140 million of a US$500 million Special Drawings Rights facility to pay part of its debt to the International Monetary Fund…
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Moyo raises gukurahundi
ZANU-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo today raised the controversial issue of Gukurahundi in which an estimated 20 000 people, mostly Ndebele, were killed in the 1980s as a dark point…
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MPs face prosecution
Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga today threatened to take legal action against legislators refusing to explain how the used their $50000 constituency grants. The country’s 210 parliamentarians are…
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The stories that Jesse tried to kill-Part 1
David Jesse managed to have The Insider website shut down for 30 hours on 9 August. His claim was that: “Since 2002 the Zimbabwe Minister of Education David Coltart has solicited a Mugabe journalist to publish false and fictitious information in regard the writer and his wife and his two minor children to the internet.”
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Penalties reduced
Zimbabwe has reduced penalties for foreign companies that violate a government mandate to sell a majority of their shares to locals, according to a government notice obtained today. Penalties for…
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Jesse’s short-lived victory
Self-proclaimed former Selous Scout David Israel Ben Jesse managed to have The Insider website shut down for just 30 hours before it was reinstated following strong representations from the publisher that he had no case and that it was unfair for the hosting company to shut down the site without giving The Insider a chance to defend its stories.
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Tsvangirai not worried about ‘salute’ from generals
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today said he was not worried whether generals in the army salute him or not. "The only salute he is worried about is the salute from…
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New beginning- What we said about Tsvangirai two years ago
The sight of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai seated at the same podium with President Robert Mugabe at the burial of former defence forces chief Vitalis Zvinavashe at the national Heroes'…
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Don’t bastardise Heroes Day- Tsvangirai
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called on Zimbabweans not to bastardise Heroes Day by making it be a day of cheap rhetoric and sloganeering, name-calling and politicking. Instead, he said, this should be a day of sober reflection and deep introspection on whether Zimbabwe has achieved true independence and freedom.
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Put out your own fires first
President Robert Mugabe today told Britain "to put out your own fires" and to stop interfering with Zimbabwe. "London is burning," he said. "We don't have any fires here. Please…